A&EAlarms & Events
ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute
APIApplication Program Interface
DAData Access
HDAHistorical Data Access
HMI Human-Machine Interface
IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission
IPInternet Protocol - RFC 791
ISOInternational Organization for Standardization
LANLocal Area Network
MESManufacturing Execution System
NaN"Not a Number", a unique binary pattern representing an invalid number
(see ANSI/IEEE 754-1985)
NATNetwork Address Translation - RFC 2663
UA Unified Architecture
UTCUniversal Time Coordinated
XMLExtensible Markup Language
CNCComputerized Numerical Control (also referred to as Computer Numerical Control)
ERPEnterprise Resource Planning
PDA/MDAProcess Data Acquisitoin / Machine Data Acquisition
PLCProgrammable Logic Control
UIUser Interface
GUIGraphical User Interface
I/OInput/Output
SCADASupervisory Control and Data Acquisition